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Powerful "Tank" Ring In Retro Style With Diamonds In Gold, Belgium 1940s

€ 2,190.00 ^*

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Powerful "Tank" Ring In Retro Style With Diamonds In Gold, Belgium 1940s

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After cool, elegant designs in platinum and white gold had defined the first years of Art Deco, the Parisian jewellery houses in particular developed this formal language further in the course of the 1930s. Instead of white gold and platinum, yellow and red gold were now again the metals of choice, and the forms became more sculptural, voluminous and expansive, although still designed from a powerful geometry. This change in style is explained not exclusively, but also by the technical and economic changes of the time. Platinum, for example, was de facto no longer available to goldsmiths at the beginning of the war at the latest, which is why the switch to yellow gold was not only voluntary. At the same time, new forms entered the field of jewellery design, forms that seem surprising from today's perspective. These are, above all, the tracks of the new type of tanks ("tank tracks"), which were now the inspiration for various jewellery details. One of the characteristic ring shapes of those years was the so-called "tank ring", whose shape, placed across the finger, looks like an element of such a track. In all sorts of different variations, these rings were made. This ring is from this period and shows us all these style features that were widespread throughout Europe. The ring is made of warm glowing gold and is set crosswise to the finger and presents eight diamonds on the resulting rectangular display area. These are formed in a transitional cut and set on a rectangle of platinum. Hallmarks inside the ring band show that the ring was made in Belgium between 1942 and 1990. We date it to the late 1940s.

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€ 2,190.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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